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Re: Tithing…Is it a command?
The Lord doesn't need our money. He owns cattle on a thousand hills.....unless someone has rustled them all.....
I agree that giving to the Lord is done through giving to His people who are in need.
Giving to support a facility and its staffing (although that's something we're allowed to do secondarily to our primary responsibilities toward one another and toward those in need in our respective communities) is a matter of supporting something that should be done far down the ladder of priorities.
This idea that giving in support of such things is synonymous with giving to God and/or His Kingdom is mostly an emotional argument more than its an argument rooted in scripture......unless someone can show me otherwise.
Jr.
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Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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